Lexical innovation and the periphery of language

Lexical innovations (e.g., zero-derivations coined on the fly by a speaker) seem to bear semantic content. Yet, such expressions cannot content as function of conventions meaning in force language, since they are not part its lexicon. This is tension with commonplace view that lexical constituted linguistic conventions. The conventionalist has two immediate ways out tension. first preserve assumption and deny second dynamize assumption, is, argue presentations unattested trigger an augmentation standing resources language instantiate result this underlying update. Building comparison production novel onomatopoeic words, iconic pseudowords pro-speech gestures, paper argues issue best addressed suspending describes metasemantic implications claim.